Monument Type(s) and Dates

Full description

Unknown, Unknown (Migrated Record). SDV331.

Vis=2/12/1997 (salvatore) bowl barrow, 2m high, 14m diam, surrounded by quarry ditch 2.5m wide, 0.5m deep. This barrow and sy08nw/6 are surrounded at a further distance by a bank and outer ditch. These are additional features of perhaps more recent date, as part of landscaping thought by southwell to date to late c18-early c19. Tyler suggests that they may be napoleonic defences, although this seems unlikely and probert states that the barrows are shown on a plan of 1801 whilst troops stationed in the area during the invasion threat did not arrive until after that date (mpp).

Unlikely to be prehistoric. Possibly connected with the military activity on the common during the napoleonic war, or part of the 18/19th century landscaping of lord rolle (southwell).

Ancient Monuments, Untitled Source (Report - Survey). SDV104823.

Vis=-/6/1923 (ancient monuments) tumuli on woodbury common, barrow f. From four firs along the yettington road eastwards, two tumuli are marked f and g on the 6" o. S. Map about 152m, before entering the boundridge plantation. They are surrounded by earth walls of modern construction, the highway runs between them.

All mounds are steep sided with gently rounded tops. Their diam vary between 9.3 and 10.5 with heights between 1.8m and 2.6m. The 2 e mounds at sy03448646 and sy03458642 are enclosed by circular earth and stone banks, 1.3m wide and 0.7m high which lie close to the mound. The w mounds at sy03758636 and sy03738633 are unenclosed, lying on the woodbury/bicton parish boundary. Mature conifers cover the e mounds while the 2 to the w are currently unplanted. The two mounds scheduled 60 j and l do not exist. It seems unlikely that they were ever present, 2 clumps of scots pines were apparently scheduled on circumstantial evidence without being investigated (see 5,iam).

NMR, CITING PROBERT, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV104830.

Although one of the mounds is alleged to have produced evidence of a cremation and associated finds ( see brighouse) there can be little doubt that in their present form they are the result of landscaping activity initiated by lord rolle of bicton in the late 18c or 19c (nmr, citing probert).

Mound, one of a pair flanking either side of the road may represent prehistoric barrow, 18th century landscaping mound, or both (i.e. barrow remodelled). SMR describes mound as 14 metres diameter by 2 metres high with surrounding ditch, and further outer bank and ditch. Mound, banks and ditches are just visible through virtually impenetrable vegetation (trees and bracken), which surrounds and covers the features.

An earthwork mound interpreted as the probable result of 18th – 19th century landscaping works is visible as an earthwork mound and ditch on aerial photographs of 1946 onwards. The earthworks are visible as a central circular mound, approximately 11m in diameter surrounded by an earthwork ditch which is itself encompassed by an outer circular earthwork berm, approximately 27m in diameter. An identical earthwork mound is visible to the immediate south, on the other side of the road. The earthworks are unlikely to be of prehistoric origin, as has been previously suggested, but is more likely the result of more recent 18th-19th century landscaping works. The earthworks are clearly visible on digital images derived from aerial photographs taken in 2010.